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SG/SM/9644-ECO/76
13/12/2004
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SG/SM/9644
ECO/76

SECRETARY-GENERAL, ADDRESSING NATIONAL FOREIGN TRADE COUNCIL, STRESSES


CLOSE LINK BETWEEN MULTILATERAL TRADE, SECURITY FRAMEWORKS

 


He Calls for Changes to Closed-Door

Decision-Making in Barrier-Laden World Trading System


Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s address to the National Foreign Trade Council in New York on Friday, 10 December 2004:

SG/SM/9642-GA/10315
8/12/2004
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SG/SM/9642
GA/10315

UN ‘NEEDS CHANGE – PERHAPS RADICAL CHANGE’ TO MEET 21ST CENTURY THREATS OF aids,


GENOCIDE, TERRORISM, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY


Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement to the General Assembly in New York, 8 December:


You received last week the report of the High-Level Panel, entitled “A More Secure World:  Our Shared Responsibility”. 

SG/SM/9641-AFR/1079
8/12/2004
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SG/SM/9641
AFR/1079

SECRETARY-GENERAL STUDIES ETHIOPIAN PROPOSAL ON BOUNDARY COMMISSION


Following is a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:


Further to the Secretary-General’s statement of 26 November, he has studied the five-point proposal that the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi submitted to Parliament on 25 November.

SG/SM/9636-GA/10313
6/12/2004
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SG/SM/9636
GA/10313

SECRETARY-GENERAL NOTES UN’S ‘ENDURING SYSTEM-WIDE COMMITMENT TO FAMILIES’

 

AS GENERAL ASSEMBLY COMMEMORATES tenth ANNIVERSARY OF INTERNATIONAL YEAR

 


Following are Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s remarks to the General Assembly on the Tenth Anniversary of the International Year of the Family in New York, 6 December:

SG/SM/9635
06/12/2004
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SG/SM/9635

SECRETARY-GENERAL’s REMARKS TO ANNUAL UN CORRESPONDENTS’ ASSOCIATION DINNER

 


Following is the text of remarks by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the annual dinner of the United Nations Correspondents’ Association (UNCA) on 3 December:


I am delighted and relieved to be back with you all at the UNCA dinner.  It’s been three years since we were last together like this.  It feels more like three decades.